Culm Davy Chapel

ST 11 NW 1/58 5.4.66

HEMYOCK CULM DAVY Culm Davy Chapel

II

Chapel. C15; thoroughly restored in the C19. Random rubble flint; gable end slate roof, the gable walls with coping. Simple undivided rectangular plan with west bellcote and south porch. Exterior. West double bellcote (which is supported internally) is entirely C19, as also the 3-light Perpendicular west window, with hood mould and head terminals. North wall with no windows. South side : 4 bays including the porch, with a blind bay to the west and renewed 2-light Perpendicular windows to the other bays. Porch with late C15 archway with composite concave and wavey moulding. Inner doorway with a 2 centred arch set in square head, with foliated spandrels, the best medieval workmanship in the chapel. Renewed 3-light east window with transom. Interior: unceiled wagon roof, some of the ribs medieval ; combined piscina and aumbrey, under trefoil head. A wall monument of the utmost primitiveness, to Anne Carvis of Ashculm, d. 1705: classical entablature with an effigy lying on its side, the apron with angel faces.

Listing NGR: ST1241115050